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As 2nd choice? Based on friendlies vs City, I wouldn't. Looked out of his depth there A reliable 2nd choice is needed imo. Never understood why we stuck with Turnbull and Hilario in last few years.

Just because you are in England doesn't mean you are the better fan. Fans from the East sacrifice for Chelsea as well. Champions League games start at 2 am here in India but we stay up to watch it. Geography has nothing to do with your support of the club

Good job on the external links. Not many of us will like this. Romeu did well under Villas-Boas when he got an extended run of games. But I can see from a positional sense, adding a midfielder will see an overcrowded midfield at Chelsea with - Mikel, Essien, Lampard, Romeu and New Signing - Van Ginkel? de Rossi? Boateng? - even Luiz and Oscar can play there if pressed. So, moving a midfielder out is fine but moving Romeu out isn't. I would look to boot Essien out the door first

Andre Schurrle

Ouch. That's a scathing review edit: I don't mind Chelsea TV commentary if it's professional. Just don't want the mind-less screaming; we do that in our living-rooms

Great read overall! As TorontoChelsea said, maybe the ratings should have been lower in comparison to the outer world. What if Mata has an even better season next year? 11/10?

It also fits nicely with Mourinho's words in the presser about not spending millions and millions on new players

He reminds me of Ballack

@, When did he talk about Torres? In the Round-table with the papers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmCM0IfYY9M&feature=c4-overview starts from 0:50:20

At one point he said, "I will not give you a big headline this time". Arrogance replaced by genuine pride for his career now

British Media is such shit

Points from the presser - I wanted to go to Italy, Spain in my career - I don't regret Madrid stint. 100 point record! - But now, I am here at Chelsea for the long run. - I am where I want to be - No privileges to the Old Guard. Everyone in the squad will get a fair chance

I don't remember now. Anyway, looks okay now. Must have been something on my end

Anyone else have stuff messed up? Like this

what happens when this counts down to zero? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmCM0IfYY9M are chelsea doing a preview for the PC?

6 hours to go lads

Liverpool home. So we can stuff them first up. No Suarez and Kolo Toure at the back

i think it will be available on youtube. chelsea will most probably upload it officially or otherwise someone or the other will use screen recording software and upload it

i did not expect both lukaku and de bruyne to be retained. this will be a pleasant surprise, if true

Well, the good news is Chelsea are trying to add a bit of steel to the midfield. Last week there was talk of de Rossi, this week KPB. Most of us would prefer de Rossi but I can only imagine he wants to stay at Roma if Chelsea have jumped to Boateng

Mourinho will address the English press at 1.30 pm UK time on Monday, June 10.

Fulham Broadway will still be the connecting tube station I think. And Earls Court doesn't have a good ring to it

Wait. Lillie Bridge is near Fulham Road? This looks better than Battersea really. Battersea was 2-3 kms away wasn't it?

^Emirates is dead for over an hour of the game Fans closer to the action like the Bridge now. about 60-65k will be fine but if they can fit in more safely/introduce safe ground-level standing areas, then great!